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The Institute of Continuing Education (ICE) is taking part in the Cambridge Science Festival in 2015 with a programme of free events at Madingley Hall on Sunday 15 March.

Naked Scientists live

15 March 2015, 3.00pm, Madingley Hall

Expand your mind - ask any question on anything scientific, with Dr Chris Smith and the award winning Naked Scientists BBC broadcast science team! Clothes will be kept on, but science will be stripped bare..... (Talk, ages 12+)

Springwatch Madingley

15 March 2015, 4.15pm, Madingley Hall

Join Dr Ed Turner for a tour of the Madingley Hall grounds to see some of the plants and animals that call Madingley their home. We will take a look at some of the signs of spring and investigate the ways that animals and plants respond to longer and warmer days. (Tour, all ages)

Shaping the darkness: how light helped build the Universe

15 March 2015, 4.15pm, Madingley Hall

Light allows us to decipher the mysteries of the night sky, but it also helped to create them. In this talk with Dr Judith Croston, find out how light is a vital actor in the way stars and galaxies work, and in how they evolved to make up the present-day Universe. (Talk, ages 12+)

Event date

Sunday, 15 March, 2015 - 15:00

Venue

Madingley Hall
Madingley
Cambridge
CB23 8AQ